wardo68 wrote:Has anyone (ANCT) figured out when he reverted to Costello for his copyrights?

Brutal Youth was the last all-MacManus album.

The All This Useless Beauty songs were written during the MacManus period, but they were copyrighted inconsistently, with half credited to Costello and half to MacManus. The original CD glossed over those details and credited Costello for everything but "Shallow Grave." (I think Elvis gets a kick out of the McCartney/MacManus credit.) The Rhino CD reflects the actual copyrights.

I believe the only newly written MacManus song since then is 2000's "Fire Suite Reprise," co-written with Roy Nathanson and Ray Dobbins. I can't explain that one.

And No Coffee Table wrote:While looking for information about Sparkling Day, I came across this list of songs Elvis has registered with ASCAP. Quite a few are unfamiliar. Anyone recognize any I can't identify?

"For More Years" and "Forbidden Nights" were both mentioned on the Lies & Inventions page, the first as a National Ransom outtake and the second as a song from a broadway musical he scrapped after two years of work.

I wonder if all the songs listed had demos submitted for copyright purposes.

That's very interesting. Seems likely an instrumental which could make identifying it definitively a bit of a challenge. Could it possibly be something that Langer and/or Winstanley remembered from the PTC or GCW sessions and worked into a bit for the movie?

That's very interesting. Seems likely an instrumental which could make identifying it definitively a bit of a challenge. Could it possibly be something that Langer and/or Winstanley remembered from the PTC or GCW sessions and worked into a bit for the movie?

Elvis said in the BBC Spike documentary that "they didn't use it" with reference to "Having it All". The soundtrack album doesn't feature any of his songs, haven't seen the film so can't identify the music neither...

That's very interesting. Seems likely an instrumental which could make identifying it definitively a bit of a challenge. Could it possibly be something that Langer and/or Winstanley remembered from the PTC or GCW sessions and worked into a bit for the movie?

My recollection is that there was a scene where a TV was literally switched off, and I always assumed the background music at that point was this tune....but it's really short I think. Who knows, this was more than 20 years ago.

FAVEHOUR wrote:My recollection is that there was a scene where a TV was literally switched off, and I always assumed the background music at that point was this tune....but it's really short I think. Who knows, this was more than 20 years ago.

A new song is registered at ASCAP and by looking at the work ID it seems to be "Burnt Sugar Is So Bitter". Can anyone confirm this?Strangely, it is registered as written by Elvis alone, so this version is not the Carole King co-write.Could this song be used for the new Darlene Love album?

Since you put me down, it seems i've been very gloomy. You may laugh but pretty girls look right through me.